Science

In Philosophy Now (Sept/Oct 2009) Raymond Tallis argues against the idea that mind and brain are the same thing. Here he distinguishes between necessary and sufficient conditions. To use his example: it is a necessary condition of Tallis being knocked down by a 97 bus in London that he must be in London. But this […]

A while back I was reading an article in Philosophy Now by Russell Berg in which he presented 15 criteria for distinguishing between a scientific theory and a non-scientific one. Perhaps predictably enough, his first criterion, that a scientific theory uses natural explanations, takes us to the heart of major issues, which, however, were not […]

The Bible teaches that all humans are descended from Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:26-2:25; 5:1ff). Paul tells the members of the Athenian Areopagus, “From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth” (Acts 17:26).
There is some possible, though far from conclusive scientific corroboration of the idea that all […]

Justin Barrett, senior researcher at the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, Oxford University, has conducted research over the last decade which, it is claimed, shows that children are born with a predisposition to see the natural world as designed and purposeful with an intelligent being behind that purpose.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:
The preponderance […]